Fighting for my LIFE in the comments of the fire/ems live update FB page because the local yokels are BIG MAD that our town newspaper (still fully independent but broke af) only gives you 2 free clicks and the scanner page blocks folks who post full articles
Experience: Learning the right way to connect the dots.
This is the best representation of something I have been trying to explain to people for years!!!! Saving this to my phone so I can routinely pull it out when I need.
It’s so crazy that Luke Skywalker thought his dad was just some freighter pilot and yet also claimed to be a podracing fan how did he not think to look at the records and see his dad was the only human to ever win the Boonta Eve Classic the legend who defeated the great Sebulba #FakeFan
Luke: Hey this pod racer who was the only human to win the Boonta Eve Classic has the same last name as me.
Uncle Owen: he’s your third cousin stop asking questions don’t look into what he did after that
I really love this idea that Tatooine, a place that seems to operate primarily on casino logic at all times and is essentially owned by the mafia, would have extensive publicly accessible records of the possibly semi-illegal racing competitions dating back decades, including the first and last name of the 9-year-old child slave who was allowed to compete (as opposed to the name of the person who owned him or sponsored him) LOL
sir that is my beloved mutual with whom i have not shared a fandom since 2013
SIR that is my- okay, look i can’t actually remember why i followed them or why they followed me, but I LOVE THEM, it would be WEIRD not to see them reblogging gifsets of shows i have no interest in!
Fuck nazis. Taxes are great actually. The public service should be valued. Unemployed people deserve adequate financial support. Regulation saves lives and money. Focus on prevention not punishment.
People who hate Frodo Baggins are my enemy. “He didn’t do anything and was useless”–yeah, okay, so what you’re not understanding is that he was the sacrificial lamb. He endured physical, mental, and emotional torment that got worse and worse as his will broke. Everyone knew this. EVERYONE KNEW THIS. That’s why everyone was devastated about it. Because Frodo was the most innocent among them, that was the entire point. He represented ordinary peaceful people being destroyed by the horrors of war. And as a hobbit he also represented some of the last vestiges of magic in what was basically a post magic apocalypse.
Frodo was basically an innocent puppy thrown into the Torment Nexus so that EVERYONE ELSE could maybe have a hope of surviving. And he did that willingly. HE DID IT OF HIS OWN FREE WILL, KNOWING IT WOULD RUIN HIM.
Frodo haters won’t see the light of heaven
All Frodo wanted to do was sit at home, read a good book, eat a nice meal and be with his friends. He gave that all up in order to save it and when it was all said and done and those friends were able to move on he couldn’t.
Every time I see this photo I imagine bucky with a jersey mom accent being like, “I swear to god, Sam, these kids are uncontrollable. I’ve seen better form in HYDRA agents and let me tell you, they weren’t much. Also, you’ll never fucking guess who’s here—WALKER.”
[ID: an extract from the Wikipedia article for Patrick McHenry, who is noted as a member of the US House of Representatives from North Carolina’s 10th district. The extract reads as follows:
McHenry was bitten by a rabid fox while running through Capitol Hill in 2022. He did not publically mention the incident until months later, commenting that “I didn’t want my Wikipedia page to say ‘And he got bitten by a rabid fox’.”
